Example sentences of "[verb] through [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As much as he complains about having to frolic through the clichés of his life , he is quite happy to encourage it . |
| 2 | As they tottered through the trees this Wednesday morning , she felt herself shaking from somewhere deep inside . |
| 3 | The moon was low now and the light , wherever it slanted through the trees , seemed thicker , older and more yellow . |
| 4 | Ribbons of light spoked across the alley , glimmering through the interstices of an unfurled bamboo blind stretched across an entrance . |
| 5 | All three groups , being sea-dwellers , have left behind abundant remains and the details of their separate dynastic fortunes can be traced through the rocks for hundreds of millions of years . |
| 6 | As I push through the dancers towards Tamsin , the boy sinks helpless to the deck . |
| 7 | I push through the tourists and into the Horse Guards . |
| 8 | She wished Beuno was there , standing by the stream and gazing through the alders at the flower-printed meadow . |
| 9 | The bronze sheeting was held to the cap , cheek-pieces , neckguard and mask by fluted strips of bronze riveted through the edges of the foil to the cap of the helmet . |
| 10 | Returning now to that day in 1811 , the hair-raising events of those next few hours graphically unfold through the words of the voyagers themselves , taken from a contemporary account in The Gentleman 's Magazine : |
| 11 | Professor Bourdieu 's work is of great , great value and is one of my main sources of inspiration for the sociology of culture developed through the pages of this book . |
| 12 | ‘ Diana 's insecurities about Camilla have developed through the years , ’ a friend revealed . |
| 13 | The peasant movement in El Salvador has developed through the peasants ’ own ability to organise and form a union in the face of growing landlessness and poverty . |
| 14 | The head also emptied through the eye-sockets , |
| 15 | But maybe cos there was no opportunity , they did n't see there to be I mean like they did n't know any better but as soon as , I mean things are rapidly changing they 're given the opportunity to erm I mean through the struggles to actually take charge of the conditions and to gain so some material and perhaps there was beginnings of them seeing that well perhaps we ought to look more to this sub-culture and to erm |
| 16 | The sheep gazed through the bars at the departing train with a look of woolly innocence . |
| 17 | Leafing through the pages of Wisden , one can discover that even on the so-called fast bowlers ' pitch at Lord 's , spinners were regularly brought to the bowling crease as first change : slow bowlers such as Titmus of Middlesex , Dooland of Notts , Tribe of Northants , Wardle of Yorkshire , Walsh of Leicestershire , Hollies of Warwickshire , Mortimore of Gloucestershire and Marlar of Sussex . |
| 18 | Shopping at your local garden centre or leafing through the pages of catalogues can be a good place to start , whether you are buying for people who prefer to read about the possibilities of beautiful plantings or for those who actually get out there and make it happen in their own gardens . |
| 19 | I looked up again to see that she was still asleep and then I began leafing through the pages , curious to see whose names were entered there . |
| 20 | She looked up as Sophie returned , leafing through the pages of the veterinary register . |
| 21 | As Morton produced the manila folder from his pocket , Sir Rufus seized it and began leafing through the papers it contained . |
| 22 | While still leafing through the statements he turned to Sara : ‘ We have a witness who claims to have seen you in Alexandra Road after eleven on Saturday night , and you may know that a woman was seen going in by the back door of this house at half-past . ’ |
| 23 | One thing about having a job , she thought , sitting down at her desk and leafing through the messages which had been left for her , it certainly takes your mind off your worries . |
| 24 | Leafing through the results of 13 years work — editor Lesley Brown and 25 assisstant editors have just completed the job of updating the shorter Oxford English Dictionary . |
| 25 | I borrowed one of my dad 's mail-order magazines , and , leafing through the screeds of bankrupt stock , out-of-date and obsolete machines , put together a portable package capable of holding huge chunks of typically verbose Mortonesque meanderings , and spitting them down telephone wires eight times faster than I 'd been used to . |
| 26 | Images of food drew it onwards to the tall , detached house at the end of the street ; thoughts of petting and cuddling from its playful , pleasant owners made it scamper through the shadows . |
| 27 | Traditions do change and adapt through the ages , but what is left is just as important to the community which upholds it . |
| 28 | I tramped through the ruins of Tughlukabad trying in my mind to fill the deserted barracks with Turkish mameluks and Persian cavalry officers . |
| 29 | Whatever the rapture of first love and the obsessiveness of courtship ( sweet old fashioned word ) and marriage , it is a class act which can retain that rapture through the rigours of parenthood , child care and mortgage repayment . |
| 30 | Even if he had been able to fix the damage , Manville had no desire to drive through the streets of Washington with the slogan ‘ Fuck U Honkies ’ sprayed in bright red aerosol paint on the ice-blue hood of the Ford . |